Hello Again from Russell School!

Did you enjoy our LOVELY LADYBUG page? They are such cute little insects, aren't they??
We loved your Lady bug book! Look on that page for our comment. :)
Now we would like to share what we know about MEAL WORMS!

• Have you heard of them? No we have not- (our teacher says we will learn about them next week)
• Do you know what they look like? No, we do not think so
• What facts do you know about them? We have just begun to study them!

We have LOTS to share -- PICTURES too!! Why don't you add to our page and tell us what you know, and we will share back with you what we know! And then we can show you our AMAZING pictures of our little friends!!
Please show us pictures of meal worms! Do you have real ladybugs? Mrs. Trost's 1st graders here do! We'll get pictures soon!

Go to our class blog: http://mrsburtsfield0809.blogspot.com/ to see pictures of our mealworms!

Here are a few pictures of STAGE 1, STAGE 2, and STAGE 3 of the mealworm...
The first stage of a mealworm's life is an egg. The egg is smaller than the egg picture shown here. The color of the egg is white but dusted with age.

The second stage of a mealworm's life is the larva stage, during this stage, it moves about by crawling and it also sheds it's skin several times and this process is known as moulting. They look weird when they do moulting and their old skin had ridges that look like scales.

The third stage of a mealworm's life is the pupa stage. It is white in color. During this stage, same as the pupa of the butterflies, it sleeps and does not eat at all !

FRIDAY, MAY 22

Our MEALWORM pupa's have begun their final transformation!!! Here are a few neat pictures we just took today. Can you guess what they turned into??